Andorid TV comes to your Raspberry Pi 3

Andorid TV on Raspberry Pi 3

If only a few weeks ago we found out how Google finally intends to give official support So that any user can install Android on their Raspberry Pi, now it's time to see the true possibilities of a platform like this. Before even the official AOSP project, a community user has decided to demonstrate how easy it can be to adapt, for example, Android TV so that it can be executed on your Raspberry Pi 3 card and demonstrate that this software, as the author comments, can be perfect for this platform.

If you have ever «fondled»A platform like Android TV, surely you will know what we are talking about and the enormous possibilities offered by the fact that it can be installed and run smoothly on a Raspberry Pi 3. If you've never had the opportunity, tell you that besides being able to see hundreds channels, including having access to Netflix, the platform offers possibilities such as being able to take advantage of emulators availables.

Before continuing, I would like you to see carefully the video that I have left you just above these lines so that you can see for yourself what both Android TV and the fluency With which it runs thanks to the capabilities of a Raspberry Pi 3. At this point we have to talk about the negative part and that is that, at least in this preliminary version, at the moment there are certain things that do not work. Even so, and depending on a certain game, this format can even be more powerful and fluid than other famous options like RetroPie.

If you have been interested in the part in which we commented that thanks to this distribution you will be able to run the client of Netflix, tell you that this point also has certain drawbacks since, as confirmed by the users of Reddit, apparently if it is true that the client executes but unfortunately contents cannot be played in FullHD format as this option is only available for HDCP chip compatible devices due to DRM issues.


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